The higher up the ship's interior, the lighter the contents became. The large amount of ore and refined metal products at the bottom accounted for a huge portion of all the supplies.
In addition, the large amount of food was also a very heavy supply, so the weight of the entire ship was concentrated near the bottom.
When this ark sails in rough seas, it will be like a roly-poly toy. No matter how much the hull tilts, it will eventually be corrected back to its original position by the center of gravity at the bottom of the hull.
The purpose of the sealed doors is to prevent water from flooding into the inner compartments. As long as the interior remains hollow like a roly-poly toy, our ark will never collapse.
The Ark has curved air intakes on its sides, so the waves crashing in from the front cannot directly enter our cabin; most of them are blocked by the sharply angled curved air intakes.
Moreover, there are two rows of air intakes, one on each side of the ship, and inside there are one-way valves that are designed to isolate seawater using elastic devices.
As long as the outer valve core is subjected to force, the inside will be immediately sealed, forming a sealed space, and outside water cannot enter at all.
These one-way valves are all designed to allow air to flow from the inside out and to seal from the outside in. They are primarily designed to handle situations where the ark is completely submerged by waves.
The only way to open the vent is to use a manual winch to lift part of the check valve, as long as the internal and external atmospheric pressures are the same.
Other one-way valves can easily be used to manually blow out the carbon dioxide gas in the cabin, and then bring in fresh air through the raised one-way valve.
Of course, "human power" is just one way of saying it; it is also possible to use livestock to generate power to drive the wind turbine.
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At this moment, a completely different scene unfolds 5,000 kilometers away from this region. Just as Tang Yi had guessed, this is where the two tectonic plates collided.
A giant wave, thousands of meters high, is currently shooting up from a sea area and colliding between the unseen tectonic plates at the bottom of the deep sea.
The immense force generated is spreading outwards in terrifying shockwaves, and a section of the seabed at the bottom of the deep sea is rapidly rising due to the compression of tectonic plates.
This section of the seabed is rising at an extremely rapid rate, so rapid that it can be measured in seconds, with a rise of about one meter per second.
A large amount of sand and gravel were sprayed out of the water, forming a black tide that continued to surge upwards.
This is an ancient seabed. Under immense pressure, this seabed will continue to rise until it exceeds sea level and becomes a new continent.
However, prior to this, the impact of the continental rise was also enormous, with tsunamis thousands of meters high spreading outwards at a speed of 800 kilometers per hour.
Some islands within a few hundred kilometers were directly submerged and swallowed by the tsunami.
After the tsunami, the island was turned into a swamp. Not a single clod of earth remained, and not a single plant could survive; everything was uprooted.
Everything happened in the blink of an eye, many times faster than the speed by which Tang Yi and his group had dealt with the original Saprolegnia.
The tsunami swept across the sea with unstoppable force, leaving devastation in its wake. No species could survive a tsunami of this magnitude.
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We were in agony, hiding in the cabin awaiting disaster. Before, we were afraid of it, but now we hoped it would come quickly.
The feeling of constantly being on edge, hiding inside the cabin, was like being suspended on the edge of a precipice by a rope that was about to break.
Now that everyone knows they are about to face an unprecedented disaster, everyone's expression is different.
Some faces were filled with fear of the unknown, while others placed their hands on their chests in prayer, hoping that the disaster would pass quickly.
The faces of the other tribesmen were filled with confusion and doubt; they still seemed to find it hard to believe that such a huge disaster could befall them on such calm waters.
A sense of unease and anxiety filled everyone's hearts. After several hours of anxious waiting in the cabin, where all precautions had been taken, the inevitable arrived as scheduled.
After traveling several kilometers, the tsunami's height has decreased by several hundred meters. However, the enormous waves have expanded a hundredfold, forming a terrifying, continuous wall of waves several kilometers wide on the water's surface.
The tsunami, amplified by each wave, not only showed no signs of diminishing in power, but its strength was actually increasing.
This is not the beginning of the tsunami, nor will it be its end. The destructive power of the tsunami will only become more terrifying with each subsequent wave of its aftershocks.
Fortunately, we were located in the middle of the tsunami, near the front. If we had been at the end of the tsunami, the terrifying force would probably have been unstoppable by any defense system.
The tsunami that struck was like a ravenous maw. The giant ark that we had painstakingly built over twenty years was as insignificant as a speck of dust in the face of the power of nature.
Unable to see what was happening outside, I felt the ark begin to tilt.
"Everyone be careful and protect your children. Our test is about to begin!"
I shouted, and everyone tensed up.
Su Su held Qianqian tightly in her arms. Qianqian looked at these adults who usually liked to chat and laugh with fear. In just one day, they were tense and looked like they were facing a great enemy. She was very scared.
"Boom... Crash!"
A deafening crash of waves rang in our ears, and even through the thick cabin, our eardrums still throbbed with pain.
I know that this means our ark will be completely swallowed by the giant waves, and we will no longer be on the surface of the water, but underwater.
The immense water pressure caused the pressure inside our cabin to increase instantly, causing many of our people to bleed from their noses.
Sisi was so frightened by this scene that she burst into tears, and the cabin was filled with the cries of the children.
But that's not all. After we sealed the ark, there was no light source inside the cabin, so we had to use bioluminescent lamps hung on the walls for illumination.
Now that the fluorescent light has fallen from the wall, I feel like I'm on a roller coaster, going through a loop in the air.
Unfortunately, none of us had the safety bars of a roller coaster to hold us in place. Instead, we all started moving up, down, left, and right along with the ark that was constantly tossing and turning underwater.
The sounds of clattering and crashing echoed continuously inside the ship's hold. Fortunately, the lowest decks had partitions that completely separated the living quarters from the cargo area. Just like a roly-poly toy, ensuring the center of gravity is stable is of paramount importance to prevent it from tipping over.
Fortunately, our living quarters were only two meters high, and since none of us are fussy, we could withstand the sustained impact of this intensity; we were just a little disoriented.
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